The extremist ISIS group says it used a suicide car bomb in its deadly attack on a police convoy in the turbulent north of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The account given by Egypt’s Interior Ministry of Monday’s attack says that a car rushed toward the convoy exploded when policemen in the convoy shot at it.
Egyptian security and military officials say four armored vehicles and a fifth one carrying signal-jamming equipment were destroyed in the attack and a police pickup was commandeered by the militants.
They say 18 police were killed and another seven wounded in the attack.
The late Monday ISIS statement says the attack left a total of 35 dead or wounded and identifies the suicide bomber by his alias, Abu Suleiman al-Masri.
ISIS Says It Used Suicide Car Bomb Against Egyptian Police
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Women Against Shariah
on Thursday, September 14, 2017
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Egypt,
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